Chastity is not charity; but, insofar as it is a refusal to grasp and an indefectible adherence to Him who gives, it forms its necessary condition. That is why the sign of chastity is the same as that of love: the eis telos (Jn 13:1), the “to the extreme,” the fact of leaning upon God even in the case where he withdraws himself; the fact of renouncing all human fecundity in order that God’s fecundity be manifest without mediation. A chaste life is thus a given life. “You must give over your life as you would toss a flower,” Madeleine Danielou said to her “daughters” of the apostolic Community of St. Francis Xavier. For “the grass dries up and the flower wilts, but the Word of our God abides forever” (Is 40:7-8; 1 Pt 1:24). full text.

Roberto Graziotto argues on both philosophical and theological grounds that an authentically realistic statesmanship lives from an at least implicit openness to the sequela Christi as the form of worldly politics precisely as worldly. According to Graziotto, such realism indicates a certain primacy of non-violence, to be firmly distinguished from any form of “blanket pacifism.”